futile
音标：
美音：/ˈfjuːt(ə)l/，英音：/ˈfjuːtaɪl/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
“Marching in carrying a banner for western-style democracy was both foolhardy and futile,” is how journalist Robert Jobson reported the exchange in a Charles biography.
“打着西式民主的旗帜游行既鲁莽又徒劳，”记者罗伯特·乔布森 (Robert Jobson) 在查尔斯的传记中这样报道这次交流。
—Washington Post
But clues were scant, and copious efforts over decades to solve the crime proved futile.
但线索很少，几十年来破案的大量努力被证明是徒劳的。
—New York Times
“It became very clear to me that a third-party effort is just futile,” Segal said.
“我很清楚，第三方的努力是徒劳的，”西格尔说。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
adjective
producing no result or effect
adj. 徒劳的，无用的；不重要的；没有出息的
同义词：
ineffectual,otiose,unavailing,bootless,fruitless,sleeveless,vain
短释义：
When something fails to deliver a useful result, you can call it futile. Hopefully all the time you’re spending studying vocabulary won’t turn out to be futile!
当某事未能提供有用的结果时，您可以称其为徒劳的。希望你花在学习词汇上的所有时间不会是徒劳的！
长释义：
Futile comes from the Latin futilis, which originally meant “leaky.” Although we use futile to talk about more than buckets, the image of a leaky vessel is a good illustration of the adjective. Pouring water into a leaky bucket is futile. Your exercise program will be futile if you don’t stop chowing down on chocolate. Futile is fancier than its synonym useless. Other synonyms are fruitless or vain. The i can be either short (FYOO-t’l) or long (FYOO-tile).
Futile 来自拉丁文 futilis，原意为“漏水”。虽然我们用 futile 来谈论比水桶更多的东西，但漏水的容器的形象很好地说明了这个形容词。把水倒进漏水的桶里是徒劳的。如果你不停地吃巧克力，你的锻炼计划将是徒劳的。 Futile 比它的同义词 useless 更花哨。其他同义词是徒劳的或徒劳的。 i 可以是短的 (FYOO-t’l) 或长的 (FYOO-tile)。
文学例句：
“Is this another desperate ploy for some way to defeat me? More yearbooks? So futile.”
“这是为了打败我而采取的另一种孤注一掷的策略吗？更多年鉴？太徒劳了。
—The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
The windows had no glass, just flaps of gunnysack strung up in a futile attempt to keep out the insects.
窗户没有玻璃，只有几片麻袋挂起来，徒劳地试图挡住昆虫。
—The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Moss saw Martin at the main door, chatting with those who were struggling to get inside the space, but it was futile.
莫斯在大门处看到了马丁，正在和那些费力想要进入空间的人闲聊，但都是徒劳。
—Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
词源：
futile (adj.)”incapable of producing result,” 1550s, from French futile or directly from Latin futilis, futtilis “vain, worthless, futile,” a figurative use, literally “pouring out easily, easily emptied” (the Latin adjective used as a noun meant “a water vessel broad above and pointed below”), hence “leaky, unreliable,” from fundere “to pour, melt,” from nasalized form of PIE root *gheu- “to pour.” Related: Futilely.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
futile（形容词）“无法产生结果”，1550 年代，来自法语 futile 或直接来自拉丁语 futilis，futtilis“徒劳的、毫无价值的、徒劳的”，一种比喻用法，字面意思是“容易倒出，容易倒空”（拉丁形容词使用作为名词，意思是“上方宽阔、指向下方的水容器”），因此是“漏水的、不可靠的”，来自 fundere “倾倒、融化”，来自 PIE 词根 *gheu- “倾倒”的鼻化形式。相关：Futilely.Related entries & more
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